Bolívar el héroe

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Bolívar el héroe is a 2003 animated film from Colombian studio Fusion Arte about the life of revolutionary Simón Bolívar, all the way from infancy, up to the Boyacá Battle in 1822.

Due to being directed for young audiences, it simplifies historical facts and fictionalized a lot of incidents, being particularly notorious the simplification of the conflicts between the Spanish oppressors and the colonial slaves by incarnating them in two characters respectively named Tiránico and Américo.

The movie is known for the negative reception it has received since its premiere, most of its attributable to the very low quality of its animation and character design.

Tropes used in Bolívar el héroe include:

• Adaptation Dye Job: Simón, going from black hair to purple for a start. Other historical figures have a high chance of this as well.
• Animesque: Quite a few internet reviewers, including Critico Histerico, have made comparisons between the art of this film and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. An article about the film from newspaper El Tiempo mentions Los Caballeros del Zodiaco as its obvious design inspiration.
• Artistic License History: By the bushel, even higher than the standard of "simplifying history for the kiddies".
  • Anti-revolutionary actors all got composited and simplified into a single character named Tiránico. The slaves and other marginalized populations in South America got their own stand-in as well, named Américo.
  • There is an scene where an European-touring Bolivar meets famed explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and the latter mentions a woman named Manuelita Saenz with very interesting ideas while in Quito. While Bolivar having meet Humboldt was technically possible albeit very improbable, at the time Humboldt visited Quito Sanz was a small kid of toddler age and as such they couldn't have conversed if they ever met.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: The antagonist's name is Tiránico, a cognate of "tyranical".
• Only Known by Their Nickname: the fat guy that is shown as Bolívar's childhood friend and later battle comrade is only called "el inglés" ("the English guy") and never given a proper name
• Rebel Leader: Just as in life, the movie's Simón becomes this in adulthood.
• Three-Month-Old Newborn: The newborn Simón's face and head are small and his body proportions are more like an older baby.
• Vague Age: It seems this is a side-effect of the art being like it is.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Simón himself has purple hair, while several characters have green, blue, bright red, or even vastly premature gray.